when they encounter david sweat he too could be armed. they are completing the search and proceeding with as much caution as possible. what about the people that live there? i can t imagine having a home in this area how nervous, how scared i would be thinking this guy s on the loose possibly right around me. reporter: yeah. there is a tremendous sense of relief that you could feel when richard matt was captured by police gunned down yesterday afternoon. there was so much optimism it seemed at that point that the next big bit of news would break that they would quickly close in on david sweat, because of course we had learned from investigators that they had found a second set of tracks which they hoped would lead to david sweat. a day later there is certainly that sense of relief that matt has been taken down but at the same time they know there is still a fugitive on the loose who may very well be armed. they are however being incredibly vigilant the people throughout this county
they suspected and searched my crew going in and out. it took 45 minutes to go through our equipment to make sure we weren t taking anything in or out including cell phones anything at all. prison employees had to go through a security line just like tsa to be x-rayed. it s amazing to me this happened. obviously rule and regulations were not followed. does your gut tell you anything about the timeline in which this could end? probably within the next few days. candace delong good to see you, thanks so much. you too, alex take care. now a look at how newspapers are reporting what happened. the press republican in plattsburgh, new york, called it shedown. the from the city where richard matt met his demise, the malone telegram says escapee killed. a sidebar story says cheers, tears but still fear with sweat on the lam.
one of them, richard matt was shot the death late yesterday afternoon in the woods near malone, new york about 40 miles from where the escape took place. more than 11 00 officers have been involved in the search since the pair escaped from the clinton correctional facility on june 6. arthur roderick deputy assistant director at the department of homeland security and former assistant director of investigations for the u.s. marshals service. welcome back arthur. nearly 24 hours or so since police con on frommed and shot fugitive richard matt. are you surprised in terms of the timing that david sweat is still at large? yes, alex i am pretty surprised surprised. i was hoping we would have absolute confirmation they had seen him. i m fairly sure he is in the perimeter but i wish we could pick up a dog scent or get a visual.
forested area. in fact we just saw a truck full of provisions pass through the checkpoints seemingly delivering supplies to the searchers who may have another very long night ahead of them. they are not giving in or shifting this perimeter to any extent at this point. i spoke to the franklin county sheriff and asked him what degree of confidence he has that david sweat remains in this search area. here s how he put it. we were very adamant about getting that perimeter set up right after the matt shooting. i don t believe that if he s in there, he s slipped the perimeter. however, we still don t have any confirmation that he was in fact with matt. that s why we insist on following all those leads that are outside the perimeter, everything is being run down. we are not putting all our eggs in one basket. reporter: i will remind you that when authorities closed in on richard matt just a day ago, little bit more than 24 hours ago, he was armed with a shotgun. he refused to surrender to
murderers tonight. police say they shot and killed a man they believed to be one of the fugitive richard matt. a witness described some of the police activity. i was sitting on my dock and i heard well i first saw a number of armed police on the opposite side of the lake. shortly thereafter, i heard a gunshot. what went through your mind? that they may be got the escaped prisoner or that maybe he was shooting at them. i really didn t know. i assumed it had something to do with the search for the escaped prisoner. and you got out of there? i did get out of there. although i didn t feel imperiled at the time. i received a call telling me what was going on and i was encouraged to leave. now, leading up to hearing that gunshot, was the police presence any different than it had been days prior? yes. there certainly has been a